"That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe."

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Source : Theodore Sturgeon (1999). “Baby is Three”, p.376, North Atlantic Books

Theodore Sturgeon

#Believe Quotes #Want Quotes #Common Quotes

“It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.”

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“It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.”
“For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.”
“'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.”
“The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.”
“The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.”
“Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.”
“One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.”

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